Acer's Predator X27: the 4K HDR 144Hz monitor of your dreams?

[midian182]

Acer showed off some impressive hardware yesterday. In addition to the Lancehead wireless mouse and Triton 700 laptop, the company unveiled what could be the monitor of gamers' dreams: The Predator X27, a 4K HDR display with a 144Hz refresh rate and G-Sync.

The rest of the X27’s specs are just as mouth-watering. It features Quantum Dot enhancement film (QDEF) technology, a 4ms response time, 99 percent coverage of the Adobe RGB color space, 178-degree viewing angles, built-in Tobii eye-tracking, and Nvidia’s ULMB (Ultra Low Motion Blur) tech, which smooths out fast on-screen movements.

But it’s the inclusion of HDR that’s likely to get gamers’ pulses racing. Those deep blacks and vibrant colors are achieved with the help of 384 separate backlights that allow the monitor to hit a brightness of 1000 nits. Most monitors reach between 250 and 350 nits.

“First used on high-end HDR televisions, QDEF is coated with nano-sized dots that emit light of a very specific color depending on the size of the dot, producing bright, saturated, and vibrant colors through the whole spectrum, from deep greens and reds, to intense blues,” Nvidia’s writes in its G-Sync HDR post. “This enables a far larger set of colors to be displayed, producing pictures that more accurately reflect the scenes and colors you see in real life.”

As well as the Predator X27, Acer also announced the Predator Z271UV. It comes with an 1800R curved panel and a resolution of 2560 x 1440. The display also features a native 144Hz refresh rate that can be overclocked to 165Hz.

No word on how much the X27 will cost. But considering it has every high-end monitor feature imaginable, expect it to be pretty wallet-crushing. And you’ll probably need a couple of 1080 Ti graphics cards to get the most out of it.

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[Squid Surprise]

Looks amazing... but I think that 27" is a bit too small for 4k resolution.... Wonder if a 32" or larger variant could be coming?

 

[Theinsanegamer]

Looks amazing... but I think that 27" is a bit too small for 4k resolution.... Wonder if a 32" or larger variant could be coming?

perhaps, OTOH this is a monitor with tons of fancy tech stuffed into a tiny package. 24-27" is the most popular screen size, so they are probably targeting the biggest market to see if it will catch on and iron out any problems before a wider release.

Also, if they did all that plus a 32" size, they might rip a hole in the space time continuum.

 

[Squid Surprise]

perhaps, OTOH this is a monitor with tons of fancy tech stuffed into a tiny package. 24-27" is the most popular screen size, so they are probably targeting the biggest market to see if it will catch on and iron out any problems before a wider release.

Also, if they did all that plus a 32" size, they might rip a hole in the space time continuum.

For the amount of money it's almost certainly going to cost, this better not be an "ironing out bugs" monitor.... and making it bigger would make it easier to cram in all that fancy tech...

 

[Humza]

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[alabama man]

Is the response time 1ms or the typical for non tn panel 4ms? If it's 1ms might actually get this.

 

[amstech]

Pretty awesome monitor, regardless of price!
I got my eyes set on the ASUS PB277Q, its a 27" 1440p LED with 1MS and 75Hz, when I can get one for $250 or less I will pull the trigger.

 

[Theinsanegamer]

perhaps, OTOH this is a monitor with tons of fancy tech stuffed into a tiny package. 24-27" is the most popular screen size, so they are probably targeting the biggest market to see if it will catch on and iron out any problems before a wider release.

Also, if they did all that plus a 32" size, they might rip a hole in the space time continuum.

For the amount of money it's almost certainly going to cost, this better not be an "ironing out bugs" monitor.... and making it bigger would make it easier to cram in all that fancy tech...

making it bigger would also reduce the customer base, resulting in less profit. For a new consumer product, you want the biggest consumer base possible until the tech is cheap enough to target niches.

Also, have you seen Tesla? windows 10? Any AAA game in the last 3 years? pushing out beta level products is the new normal.

 

[Skidmarksdeluxe]

"But it’s the inclusion of HDR that’s likely to get gamers’ pulses racing".
But it’s the estimated price that’s likely to get gamers’ defibrillated.
Fixed.
No thanks are necessary.

 

[Mithan]

How is this different than the XB272-HDR ?

 

[Bassx101]

Looks amazing... but I think that 27" is a bit too small for 4k resolution.... Wonder if a 32" or larger variant could be coming?

Bud, I have the now "old" xb280hk, 27 is just fine, don't get me wrong bigger is better is cool and all, but my man cave gaming area is a confined space that barely fit the my "old"28, this 27 will do just fine, but hey get your 32, im sure they will offer varying sizes.

 

[Skjorn]

Is the response time 1ms or the typical for non tn panel 4ms? If it's 1ms might actually get this.

I is 4ms.
I will be waiting until a single card can pump most games 4k 120+fps. Hopefully Volta can. And hopefully by then they got this monitor down to 1ms.

 

[mosu]

Is the response time 1ms or the typical for non tn panel 4ms? If it's 1ms might actually get this.

I is 4ms.
I will be waiting until a single card can pump most games 4k 120+fps. Hopefully Volta can. And hopefully by then they got this monitor down to 1ms.

Most certainly only a pair of Volta or Vega will push 120+ frames at 4K,maybe with HDR enabled, but I believe your expectations are too high and you'll have to wait a bit longer.It looks like it is a VA panel and personally I would wait for the FreeSync variant.

 

[Experimentongod]

For the moment kind of a pointless monitor because we can barely maintain 60fps @ 4K with a lot of games. Also the price will be around $2.000 or something absurd.

 

[Cracken]

4k on 27" has never been a dream, its something I would avoid and stay away from

1.no high end cards can provide enough power to run 4k in general game usage, far from it. Im guessing it will be at least 5-10 years before high end card can run a wide range of demanding games at 4k.

Graphic card inovations the lead to performance increasment has beeb pretty liniar over the past 10-15 years..bumbing up to 4k from 1920x1080 / 2560x1440 is massive step, gpu's dosnt just suddenly cath up, nothing is indicating that they will either in the near future.

2.at only 27", the 4k resolution dosnt give much improvement image quality wise. Not so thats its worth the huge drawback in performance